{"id":84806,"date":"2016-01-08T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84806"},"modified":"2016-01-08T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:29:44","slug":"eu-moves-to-destabilise-polands-new-conservative-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84806","title":{"rendered":"EU Moves To Destabilise Poland\u2019s New Conservative Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2016\/01\/04\/eu-moves-destabilise-polands-new-conservative-government\/\">Breitbart<\/a>: Legislation designed to give Poland\u2019s newly-elected conservative government control of state media outlets and the sole power to appoint executives to senior broadcasting positions has been slammed by European Commissioner G\u00fcnther Oettinger.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Oettinger has accused Poland, the European Union\u2019s (EU) sixth-largest member state, of infringing \u201ccommon European values\u201d and threatened the country with immediate sanctions coupled with legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, has already signed the bill into law. Now the move could start a series of steps that, if the law remains in place, could eventually see Warsaw stripped of voting rights at the European Council, the organisation that groups the leaders of all 28 EU nations.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sunday, the commissioner for the digital economy and society said: \u201cMany reasons exist for us to activate the \u2018Rule of Law mechanism\u2019 and for us to place Warsaw under monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA director (of public radio or television) cannot be dismissed without cause. It would be arbitrary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has threatened to implement the rule of law procedure, in place since 2014 to protect against \u201csystemic dangers to the rule of law,\u201d the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The measure is the latest in a raft of measures introduced by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which won a general election in October.<\/p>\n<p>The media bill, which was submitted to the conservative-dominated parliament on December 30, 2015 was easily approved by 232 lawmakers, with 152 voting against and 34 MPs abstaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart: Legislation designed to give Poland\u2019s newly-elected conservative government control of state media outlets and the sole power to appoint executives to senior broadcasting positions has been slammed by European Commissioner G\u00fcnther Oettinger. Mr Oettinger has accused Poland, the European &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84807,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84806\/revisions\/84807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}